which is placed on the Bible, and Cbarron’s Book of WifdomJ
The reft of the books are of piety, excepting one of diftillationsl
and excellent medicines. Such is the:figure of the heroic datigkej
of a hero father, whofe fpirit didtated this animated anfwer to the inJ
folent minifterofan ungrateful court, who would force into one ofl
her boroughs, a perfon difagreeable to her :
‘ I have been bullied by an ufurper ; I have been neglefted by J
1 court; but I will not be dilated to by a fubjedt. Your mal
£ iha’nt ftand,
' ‘ A n n e Dorfet, Pembroke, and Montgomery' I
Above her are the heads of her two hufbands, Richard E a r l of
Dorfet, who died in 1624; an amiable nobleman, a patron of met*
and letters, and bounteous to diftreffed worth. The other is of tha*
brutal fimpleton, Philip, Earl of Pembroke, the juft luBjpkuffh j
ridicule, whom ihe married fix years' after the death of her firft Lordl
Yet ihe fpeaks favorably of each, notwithftanding their mental qua*
lifications were fo different: ‘ Thefe two Lords, fays fhe, to whom!
‘ was by the" divine providence married, were in their feveral kindel
worthy noblemen as any in the kingdom; yet it was my misfortun®
to have croffes and contradidlions with them both. Nor did therfl
want malicious ill-willers to blow and foment the coals of diffeij
‘ fion between us, fo as in both their life-times, the marble pillars oil
| Knowle, in Kent, and Wilton, in Wiltjhire, were to me but the ga*
‘ arbours of anguiih, infomuch as a wife man, who k n e w th e infid®
* of my fortune, would often fay, that I lived in both thefe myi
‘ Lords great families as the river of Roan, orRodarns, runs thro’ thfl
■ lake o f Geneva, without minglina any part of its ftreams with thaa
* of the lake.’
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